Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-03-26
MINNESOTA

school site.
Glencoe is guaranteed with scarlet fever
and measles.
The carriers OF the Minneapolis Tribune are
on a strike.
st. Paul enjoyed l16 days Of sleighing the
past winter.
A fine bed Of pottery clay has been ane0v-
cred at Austin.
Minneapolis expended SIC, o05 in behalf OF
her poor last year.
Hamline university will build to the amount
OF $50,0 900 this year.
The mind-cure craze at st. Paul is playing
havoc with the doctors.
The Austin Transcript has been sold TO s.
Washburne and n. 8. Gordon.
&. n. Lockren, Of Mortified, was frozen to
death al Mortified Oh the 18th.
The state dairy commissioner seized 800
pounds of bogus butter at st. Paul.
st. Peter will vote on the question Of lssE-
inc water works bonds next month
Distemper is epidemic among The horses OF
Nieollet. Quite a number have died.
George Steiger and Mrs. STAGE, both of Bel
vldere, have been indicted for adultery.
An attempt -as made to shoot the watch.
man at the Mankota tub factory the other
night.
Grihlr Bros, Of ST. Cloud, failed for s1c3.-
600. They were manufacturers of pressed
brick
About $500 900 worth OF improvement
bonds are TO be placed in the market By Min.
neapolis.
John Cooney, a brakeman on the OInsha
way freight was killed at Duluth on the
18th.
A number of Naseca people are pooling
their Issues and packing n colony trunk for
Tenpassce.
Hon. T. W. Hoyt, of Red Wing, has pre-
sented the Methodist church there with u pipe
organ costing 81, 200.
J.. l.. Aune says there is no truth IN the re-
port that he is about TO resign as receiver Of
the Fergus Falls land Office.
As one result of the recent elections, local
option prevails In the towns OF Sanborn,
Lamberton aud Walnut Grove.
Whipley j. Sherwln aud son were drowned
In the Root river near Spring Valley, togetheI
with a team, on the l4th inst.
David Gustaison, OF Nicollet, has began
action for divorce from his wife Betsey be
cause she ran away with his brother.
Gen. w. G.. lie Due has sued the city OF
Hastings for $500, war bounty tax, with Ia,
terest at : per cent, from January /, 1865.
The saloons Of st. Paul, with great regu
larity and without official encouragement
observe the Sunday closing agreement.
Albert Rickmelr, u hoy, while playing or
the Clear Lake tobegg.A slide, on the 14tt
inst, fell and broke his .g at The thigh.
A large assemblage gathered at the Fari
bault opera house on Friday, to celebrate the
anniversary OF the birth q Robert Emmet.
Geo. F.. Losey has been indicted on three
counts for forging the name of Geo. Ii. FiielC
TO promissory notes. The parties reside a
Winona.
Rev. John Jahn, a Lutheran pastor OF Lew
iston, has sued Rev. A. f. Seleler of the sam,
place for'libel, SeIgler having stated tina
Jahu was an embeZzler.
Mrs. Grokes, 50 years Of age, while visiting
her daughter In the town Of Flora, Renvill,
county, slipped and fell in attempting towaIl
out the doorway on the 18th inst. WheI
picked up she was found 70 be dead.
While Prof. Rankin, OF the Owatona higl
school, was experimenting at oxygen making
the stuff exploded and burned his hands anC
face somewhat. Ned Mitchell, who was as
sisting him, was also badly burned. II i
not known what caused the accident.
v'hnr, t. tt,cI- va, ,1x A.. III -.
panies at Mankato with Kerosene, and oil i
nov retailing at 0 cents per gallon. 1t 4
said TO be an attempt on the part OF the Stan
dard OH company to drive other oils out O
market.
Vim. Huey, Of Minneapolis, was ~arreste,
charged with bastardy by a girl named Mar,
Thompson, Of Saltwater. On the examina
ton the court ordered the girl to be exam
ined by q competent physician, who pro
nounced the charge utterly false, and nuey
was discharged.
The secretary OF the interior has requested
the encouragement to bring criminal pro
ceedings against X. l.. Elder, OF Detroit
Becker county, for cutting timber on land In
section 80, town 1873, range 40, which he ha(
taken up as a homestead, hat afterward
abandoned.
The Farmers alliance OF GEORGETOWN ha.
rendered a vote of thanks TO the Hon. Tgna
titus Bonnelly, "fo- his determined efforts &c
bring the state again into prosperity by cut
| ting down unwarranted combination frcigh,
rates, u~surious rates of interest, and gto Sc.
cure tariff reform"
Two young girls aged sixteen and fourteen
were arrested at Window dressed In boys at.
tire. They said they were from Rochester,
New York, and were going to Calgary, North
West Territory, and gave their names as
Charlie and Berry Byers. They said their
brother resided at Calgary.
solomon Youmans tried to put asunder
what the law had lately joined together by
bringing action against young Miller, his
newly-made eon -in-law, for swearing falsely
to his daughters age, so as to cover the legal
period requisite TO marrying without the
parents consent. The kind and accommo-
dating justice, however, held that age was
not a material point and dismissed proceed
ings.
Dan Mahoney, .ornau CT the 81. Paul Dis
patch, with two printers named r. G. Nelson
and s.. Hassiet, were discharged last Satur-
day, Manager Thompson having discovered